A list of 40 Tory MPs alleged to have behaved improperly or had relations with colleagues in Westminster has been published online.

A screenshot of the spreadsheet — which has circulated in Westminster for the past two days — was published anonymously today on a website which specialises in displaying images which have gone viral.

A redacted version of it was put on Twitter by a number of users. The list contains the names of five cabinet ministers and several more ministers of state. In the column where the allegation is made, some simply list “affair”, while others detail consensual relationships. However some contain much more serious allegations of inappropriate behaviour.

While more than half the names are alleged by the authors of the list to have behaved inappropriately, the rest have been in consensual relationships with no suggestion of harassment, or feature details about personal sexual peccadilloes.